Beschreibung

Beschreibung

The second and first centuries BC saw the birth and development of the new Chinese Empire. This work sheds light on the public and private lives of those who lived in the frontier regions. This study enables an understanding of the origins and development of the concepts of state, nation, nationalism, imperialism, ethnicity, and Chineseness.

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Chun-shu Chang is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and is the author, with Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang, of Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China and Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P'u Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715.